July 22, 2009: “Nocturne”

Published in the A Year in Return: March 15, 2010-March 15, 2011, Journal

The life I should have
lived I did not live.

What I should have done
I did as if frozen in midstep.

I did next to nothing
and what I did I did half-hearted—

a snowflake disappearing into
the black surface of a lake—

for an instant luminous
just as the clouds are, passing overhead.

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